Posted by Alumni from The Atlantic
March 29, 2026
Nick Fuentes, a 27-year-old white-supremacist influencer, is notorious for a political outlook that he summarizes succinctly: 'Jews are running society, women need to shut the fuck up, Blacks need to be imprisoned, for the most part.' For Ericson Contreras, a left-leaning 23-year-old Afro Hispanic man from New York, Fuentes is not a natural ideological guru. So when Contreras was scrolling Instagram at 3 a.m. recently, he was surprised to find himself served a clip of a Fuentes monologue. More surprising still, Contreras was nodding along. 'Trump is better than the Democrats for Israel. For the oil and gas industry. For Silicon Valley. For Wall Street. Is he really better for us' I don't think so,' Fuentes declared while gazing at the camera in one of these fan-uploaded clips. 'Biden made it so that medical debt doesn't go on your credit report'that was good for me. Biden tried to forgive the student loans'that was good for me.' Retouched in a tasteful black and white, the video... learn more